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Bidders seek more time for Chennai metro tunnel work

09/02/2016

They say the December floods damaged the tunnel boring machines and other equipment left behind by the previous contractor. The Russian ...

Crenshaw/LAX light rail tunnel boring machine is named 'Harriet'

04/02/2016

Los Angeles and Inglewood students who took part in a succession of contests involving the 950-ton tunnel boring machine, including a naming ...

Construction sites - Thames Tideway Tunnel

04/02/2016

Construction sites - Below are the proposed site locations along the tunnel line. The tiles contains an overview of the works at each site, as well as ...

Clyde Tunnel facing £25m repair bill to remain open

04/02/2016

clyde tunnel One of Scotland's busiest river crossings will need over £25 million worth of repairs over the next decade years to stop it from closing, ...

Korea Eximbank to provide feasibility study for tunnel in Kandy

02/02/2016

Korea Eximbank to provide feasibility study for tunnel in Kandy ... to gain significant transfer of advanced technology in tunnel construction from Korea.

Tunnel-boring machine for new Crenshaw light-rail named after Harriet Tubman

02/02/2016

A construction worker surveys inside the giant tunnel boring machine named Harriet during the Metro unveiling ceremonial celebration at the Expo ...

Mott MacDonald designing Tideway's East tunnel section of London super sewer

01/02/2016

Located between 45m and 65m below ground, the two tunnels will be excavated by tunnel boring machines (TBMs) using slurry pressure balance ...

Major breakthrough in Beskyd tunnel

26/01/2016

The so-called Beskyd tunnel is being built by the Ukrainian construction firm Interbudmontazh and financed by a US$ 40 million loan provided by the ...

Two Turkish-owned companies to compete for terminal construction at Russian airport

20/01/2016

Limak and Renaissance —companies with Turkish owners — will compete for the construction of a terminal and tunnel of the Sheremetyevo airport in ...

Government ministers, regional governors head to unveil first stage of tunnel

20/01/2016

On January 21 the official celebration will take place on completion of the first phase of the Beskyd tunnel construction. This is a two-track railroad ...

Sinkhole halts Seattle's 'Bertha' tunnel project

20/01/2016

Once again, the tunnel-boring machine dubbed Bertha has been taken offline, and the $1.35 billion Alaskan Way Viaduct is on hold, the Associated ...

This Month In Rail Construction News Issue 1.9

19/01/2016

In this month's edition of Rail Construction News we uncover the Brenner Base Tunnel project; we detail the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement ...

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